for(1) - Linux man page
Name
for - perform a set of commands multiple times.
Synopsis
- for VARNAME in [VALUES...]; COMMANDS...; end
Description
- for is a loop construct. It will perform the commands specified by COMMANDS multiple times. Each time the environment variable specified by VARNAME is assigned a new value from VALUES. If VALUES is empty, COMMANDS will not be executed at all.
Example
- The command
for i in foo bar baz; echo $i; end
would output:
foo bar baz